We had another wide open discussion including various topics: An written by ChatGPT about TPM chips. A shot of Donald Trump’s bathroom. A website Pat recommends about privacy related info. The ultimate mesh network, helium, and its explorer. Richard started… Read more2023-06-10 Meeting

We pretty much spent most of the time chatting about all the usual stuff.  Projects that we’re working on, iced coffee vs energy drinks, coworkers with a different way of doing things, AI taking over the world, rustdesk, favorite distros,… Read more2023-05-13 Meeting

ChatGPT was the topic of the month and we had a very animated discussion. At the mention of “Night Agent,” Gib prompted ChatGPT to provide a description of the TV shoe. He then followed up seeking information about some of… Read more2023-04-08 Meeting

Open Discussion: Today we talked about several things, including recent power outages and creating screenshots.  There were three we spent more time on: fixing tables in mysql when the root account password is unknown. service mysql stop mysqld_safe –skip grant-tables… Read more2023-03-11 Meeting

Open Discussion: We had three new people join the group, and they introduced themselves and talked about their experiences with Linux.  We introduced ourselves and talked about favorite distros and reasons why a person may like “distro hopping.”  All was… Read more2023-02-11 Meeting

Open Discussion: Since we didn’t have a presenter for CoolEdit we talked about it.  Fortunately Michael attended and was able to give us a live demo of the program.  In further discussion we noticed that it was more difficult than… Read more2023-01-14 Meeting

Open Discussion: The entire meeting consisted of an open discussion covering various topics, including: Options for using one keyboard and mouse for multiple computers, using a kvm switch or the program barrier. How CentOS, RedHat and Alma Linux are all… Read more2022-12-10 Meeting

Open Discussion: Gib led a discussion about cloud services and cloud service providers.  We also diverged the conversation to talk about system administrator jobs and the changing environment that better supports automation and virtual hardware. We’d like to thank Gib… Read more2022-10-08 Meeting

Open Discussion: We had an open discussion which included Pat talking about his new toys and Richard L talked about running Android in VirtualBox.

Open Discussion: While it’s true that we discussed Linux and its usage in various environments, we actually spent more time talking about energy, batteries, CO2 batteries, power generation and the replacement of lead acid batteries in data centers and vehicles. … Read more2022-08-13 Meeting